Separate Sovereignty Or Independence for Puerto Rico: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session ... June 23, 1998, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998 - 66 pages |
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ACLU Afroyim American becomes a separate bill birth in Puerto born abroad born in Puerto CHAIRMAN citizenship rights committee commonwealth Compact of Free Congress Congressional decolonization defense dual citizenship due process economic election ereignty established federal Fourteenth Amendment free association GARCIA PASSALACQUA guaranteed hearing independent Puerto Rico international law issues KILLIAN legislation Marshall Islands Micronesia nation of Puerto nationality and citizenship Palau persons born Philippines political status PREPARED STATEMENT proposal Puerto Rican citizenship Puerto Rican sovereignty Puerto Rico becomes Puerto Rico-born U.S. recognized relationship residing in Puerto RICHARD THORNBURGH Rico-born U.S. citizens Rico's RODRIGUEZ-ORELLANA self-determination self-government Senator GRAHAM separate nation separate sovereignty SOLER MARI sovereign Puerto Rico sovereignty option statehood status options statutory citizenship Territory Clause Thank Thornburgh tion tional treaty of union U.S. citizen parents U.S. citizenship U.S. Constitution U.S. government U.S. law U.S. nationality U.S. SENATOR United States citizenship VEGA-RAMOS vote voters
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Page 19 - Charter, shall be: a. to further international peace and security; b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or independence as may be appropriate to the particular circumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; c.
Page 26 - Congress assembled conformable thereto. The inhabitants and settlers in the said territory shall be subject to pay a part of the Federal debts, contracted or to be contracted, and a proportional part of the expenses of government, to be apportioned on them by Congress, according to the same common rule and measure by which apportionments...
Page 19 - Free association should be the result of a free and voluntary choice by the peoples of the territory concerned expressed through informed and democratic processes.
Page 14 - The result of what has been said [about the treaty with respect to Porto Rico] is that while in an international sense Porto Rico was not a foreign country, since it was subject to the sovereignty of and was owned by the United States, it was foreign to the United States in a domestic sense, because the island had not been incorporated into the United States, but was merely appurtenant thereto as a possession.
Page 8 - Samoa, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau...
Page 32 - The ACLU is a nation-wide, non-partisan organization of more than 275,000 members devoted to protecting the principles of freedom set forth in the Bill of Rights.
Page 35 - States; (7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than...
Page 14 - On the whole, therefore, we find no features in the Organic Act of Porto Rico of 1917 from which we can infer the purpose of Congress to incorporate Porto Rico into the United States with the consequences which would follow.
Page 44 - STATEMENT OF HON. BOB GRAHAM, US SENATOR FROM FLORIDA Senator GRAHAM. Mr. Chairman...
Page 19 - The associated territory should have the right to determine its internal constitution without outside interference, in accordance with due constitutional processes and the freely expressed wishes of the people. This does not preclude consultations as appropriate or necessary under the terms of the free association agreed upon.